Idioms Quiz 4

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Idioms Challenge

Test your understanding of idiomatic expressions with our engaging quiz! Discover the meanings behind various idioms and see how well you can interpret them.

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What does the idiom mean?: You have to make sure you stand out in a company, or they might leave you in the cold.

The company will ignore you.

The company will leave you outside the building.

The company will fire you.

What does the idiom mean?: The education secretary poured cold water on the recommendations of a working party.

The education secretary was insulted and poured cold water on someone.

The education secretary criticized the recommendations.

The education secretary liked the recommendations.

What does the idiom mean?: Let's not drag our feet on making this important decision.

We're all sad about this decision.

Let's make the decision immediately.

Let's not deliberately avoid and take our time making this important decision.

What does the idiom mean?: Someone should cut that man down to size!

Someone should show the man he's not as important as he thinks he is.

Someone should cut the man in line.

Someone should congratulate the man.

What does the idiom mean?: We'll succeed in the end if we just stay the course.

We'll succeed if we keep driving the car this way.

We'll succeed if we persevere until the end.

We'll succeed if we don't leave the building.

What does the idiom mean?: I can't believe I won the lottery and a radio contest in the same week—I have the luck of the devil!

I'm extremely lucky.

I'm extremely unlucky

I'm a bad person and act like the devil.

What does the idiom mean?: Just hold your horses, Bill! Let's think about this for a moment.

Don't leave, Bill!

Be patient, Bill!

Don't let go of your horse, Bill!

What does the idiom mean?: I've got a busy day tomorrow, so I think I'll hit the sack.

I'll hit a sack of flour.

I'll hit the alarm.

I'll go to bed.

What does the idiom mean?: “Danny was in danger of failing, so before his last math test he left the show early to go home and hit the books.”

Danny went home to study.

Danny went home to hit his books in anger.

Danny accidentally knocked over some books.

What does the idiom mean?: After my mother left my father started hitting the bottle.

My father broke bottles.

My father started drinking to excess.

My father played musical bottles.

What does the idiom mean?: He'll move heaven and earth to get it done on time.

He'll cut the grass on time.

He'll run to church rather than take the car.

He'll use supreme effort to get it done on time.

What does the idiom mean?: I tried to find my lost key on the sandy beach, but it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

My key was covered in sand.

My key was impossible to find because of all of the sand.

My key was in a haystack.

What does the idiom mean?: I can tell Jenny is upset; she wears her heart on her sleeve.

Jenny's emotions are obvious and I can tell she is upset.

Jenny wears a heart on her sleeve to let people know when she is upset.

Jenny is hiding that she is upset.

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